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	GEORGE P. LAPORT   Source: Past and Present of Knox County, Ohio - Vol. II - Publ. by B. F. Bowen & Company, Indianapolis, Indiana - 1912 - Page 601
	FRANK C. LARIMORE   Source: Past and Present of Knox County, Ohio - Vol. II - Publ. by B. F. Bowen & Company, Indianapolis, Indiana - 1912 - Page 545
	ISAAC P. LARIMORE   Source: Past and Present of Knox County, Ohio - Vol. II - Publ. by B. F. Bowen & Company, Indianapolis, Indiana - 1912 - Page 795
	JOSEPH M. LARIMORE   Source: Past and Present of Knox County, Ohio - Vol. II - Publ. by B. F. Bowen & Company, Indianapolis, Indiana - 1912 - Page 794
	ROBERT LARIORE   Source: Past and Present of Knox County, Ohio - Vol. II - Publ. by B. F. Bowen & Company, Indianapolis, Indiana - 1912 - Page 546
	STANLEY A. LAYMAN   Source: Past and Present of Knox County, Ohio - Vol. II - Publ. by B. F. Bowen & Company, Indianapolis, Indiana - 1912 - Page 869
	WILLIAM T. LEATHERMAN   Source: Past and Present of Knox County, Ohio - Vol. II - Publ. by B. F. Bowen & Company, Indianapolis, Indiana - 1912 - Page 717
	ABRAHAM LEEDY   Source: Past and Present of Knox County, Ohio - Vol. II - Publ. by B. F. Bowen & Company, Indianapolis, Indiana - 1912 - Page 853
	ISAAC LEEDY   Source: Past and Present of Knox County, Ohio - Vol. II - Publ. by B. F. Bowen & Company, Indianapolis, Indiana - 1912 - Page 852
	WILLIAM H. LEEDY   Source: Past and Present of Knox County, Ohio - Vol. II - Publ. by B. F. Bowen & Company, Indianapolis, Indiana - 1912 - Page 870
	JAMES L. LEONARD   Source: Past and Present of Knox County, Ohio - Vol. II - Publ. by B. F. Bowen & Company, Indianapolis, Indiana - 1912 - Page 700
	JACOB LEPLEY   Source: Past and Present of Knox County, Ohio - Vol. II - Publ. by B. F. Bowen & Company, Indianapolis, Indiana - 1912 - Page 770
	FRANK O. LEVERING.     The life of the scholarly or professional man seldom exhibits any of those striking incidents that seize upon public feeling and attract attention to himself.  His character is generally made up of the aggregate qualities and qualifications he may possess, as these may be elicited by the exercise of the duties of his vocation or the particular profession to which he belongs.  But when such a man has so impressed his individuality upon his fellow men as to gain their confidence and through that confidence rises to high and important public trust, he at once becomes a conspicuous figure in the body politic of the community and state.  Frank O. Levering, ex-probate judge, and one of the leading attorneys of this section of the Buckeye state, is one of the scholarly, public-spirited, progressive citizens of the locality of which this history deals, who, not content to hide his talents amid life’s sequestered ways, has by the force of will and a laudable ambition forged to the front in a responsible and exacting calling, and earned an honorable reputation in one of the most important branches of public service.      Mr. Levering is a worthy representative of two of our sterling pioneer families and his life has been spent in Knox county, his birth having occurred in Middlebury township on Sept. 29, 1862.  He is the son of John Cook Levering and Carrie (Richardson) Levering.  When Ohio was a vast wilderness and the land still in possession of the government, and the abode of Indians and many species of wild beasts, the Levering family invaded its primeval solitudes and the name has been well known here ever since, figuring more or less conspicuously in the annals of the county of Knox, especially.  The first progenitors of this family came to America in the latter years of the seventeenth century - Gerhard and Wigard Levering, who were sons of Rosier Levering, who was born in Holland of Anglo Saxon parentage, his father and mother having been exiled from England on account of their religious belief.  Rosier Levering married Elizabeth Vandewall, of Westphalia, Germany, and their son Gerhard was born in Camen, Germany, in 1660.  In 1685, accompanied by his brother, Wigard, he crossed the Atlantic to America.  Gerhard Levering married, and among his children was Daniel, who was born on Dec. 2, 1704, and on May 12, 1735, Daniel was married, in Christ church, Philadelphia, to Margaret Beane, and they lived on a farm of one hundred acres in Whiteplain township, Montgomery county, New Jersey.  To them was born a son, Henry, on June 10, 1738, who was the great-great-grandfather of the subject of this sketch.  For many years Henry Levering lived at the Durham iron works in New Jersey, but in 1785 he removed to a farm in Bedford county, Pennsylvania.  He married Ann Wynn, and to them was born Daniel Levering, the subject's great-grandfather, in New Jersey, on Feb. 3, 1764.  In 1785 he ac companied his parents to Bedford county, Pennsylvania, where he married Mary Kerney.  In 1811 he visited Knox county, Ohio, and purchased a large tract of land from the government, in Owl creek valley, where he later located with his family and there spent his remaining years, starting as pioneer in the forest.  His death occurred in 1820, his widow surviving until Oct. 24, 1846, dying at the advanced age of eighty-four years.  They were devout Presbyterians and leading citizens in the community.      NOAH LEVERING, the paternal grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was born in Bedford county, Pennsylvania, on Nov. 7, 1802, and in 1813 be came with his parents to Knox county, Ohio, and here he was married on Mar. 25, 1828, to Armanella Cook, daughter of John and Ann Cook, who came to Ohio from Washington county, Pennsylvania, about 1805.  Noah Levering was a farmer and his death occurred on Mar. 4, 1881, his wife having preceded him to the grave on June 13, 1879.      JOHN COOK LEVERING, father of the immediate subject of this review was born on the old family homestead in Middlebury township, Sept. 11, 1829, b eing the eldest of a family of ten children.  He assisted his father with the general work on the farm and when twenty-one years old he purchased a farm of eighty acres and began farming for himself.  In the year 1860 he was united in marriage with Carrie Richardson, daughter of Daniel and Thankful (Camp) Richardson, the father being a well known lumber merchant in New York for many years.  Mr. Levering continued farming and adding to his holdings until he became one of the extensive landowners and substantial farmers of the county, actively interested in everything that made for the general progress of the community.  He had an extensive reputation as a stockman, handling the best grades in the county, winning many first premiums, and he did as much if not more to improve the grade of domestic animals here in his day as any one.  In 1866 he became a member of the Knox County Agricultural Society, of which be was a member for many years and for a number of years the president of the same.  In 1881 he was elected a member of the Ohio state board of agriculture, and be assisted in the purchase and improvement of the present beautiful state fair grounds at Columbus, Ohio.  For six years he was a member of the board, and was its first treasurer in 1885 and its president in 1886.  In 1883 he represented Ohio in the national convention.  In 1887 Governor Foraker appointed him a member of the Ohio centennial board.  In 1890 he read a paper at the request of the secretary of the State Society of Agriculture before the Ohio agricultural convention on “Farmers’ Horses and Horse Breeding.”  This led to the formation of the Ohio State Draft and Coach Horse Association in 1891, of which Mr. Levering was the president for three years.  In 1871 he was elected commissioner of Knox county and re-elected in 1874, and many of the substantial improvements of the county were made during these years.   He was a life-long Democrat in politics, and in 1886 his party nominated him for Congress in the nineteenth Ohio district.  He was always painstaking and conscientious in the performance of all public duties and he became known throughout the state, especially as an agriculturist and stock man, and his influence was very potent and far-reaching in promoting modern phases in both.  He was a man of keen business discernment, sound judgment and wise foresight, public-spirited and always ready with time and means to further any laudable undertaking for the general good of his locality.  Early in life he became a member of the Presbyterian church and was a devout church member.  He was a good and useful man and enjoyed the confidence, admiration and universal esteem of all who knew him.  His death occurred Sept. 13, 1903, and his widow is still living.      Frank O. Levering spent his youth on the farm and obtained his early education in the district schools, which he attended in the winter time, assisting with the general farm work during crop seasons.  He later attended and graduated with honors from Eastman’s Commercial College at Poughkeepsie, New York.  In 1885 he entered the mercantile business at the village of Levering, Knox county, but not finding this line of endeavor entirely to his liking he abandoned the same in 1890 and took up the study of law in Mt. Vernon in the office of Hon Frank V. Owen and was admitted to the bar in 1892.  He immediately began practicing in Mt. Vernon and he has built up a large and growing clientage, taking a place in the front rank of the legal profession in a locality long noted for the high order of its legal talent.  He has kept fully abreast of the times in every thing pertaining to his profession, winning a reputation for persistency, caution and a safe and prudent advocate, with few equals and no superiors.   In 1883 he was appointed a member of the county board of elections and he performed his duties so faithfully that he was twice re-appointed.  In 1896 he was elected probate judge of Knox county, which office he filled to the entire satisfaction of all concerned, irrespective of party alignment and giving evidence of attributes of a superior order and a fidelity to right that knew no bias.  Retiring from office, he resumed the practice of the law, which he has continued with his usual success.      In connection with his professional duties, Judge Levering has been actively associated with the gas and oil development of this section of the state, and through his efforts much of the success of the field is attributable, and he has met with much success in a business way.      Politically, the Judge is an uncompromising Democrat, as was his hon ored father before him, and he has been active and prominent in party councils.  He was a delegate to the Democratic national convention of 1900, and his work in committees has been effectual and has resulted in much good to the party.  He has been a very influential delegate to county, district and state conventions.  Fraternally, he belongs to the Masonic order, the chapter, council and commandery, and is a past officer in all of the bodies; he is also a member of the Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine.  He is also a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Knights of Pythias, and has filled the presiding offices in these lodges, being prominent in fraternal circles of the county.      Mr. Levering was married in 1886 to Byrdess E. Leiter, daughter of Capt. C. P. Leiter, a prominent citizen of Shelby, Ohio, of which city he was mayor for a number of years and otherwise an influential citizen there.  To Mr. and Mrs. Levering have been born six children, namely: Howard A., Russell Edgar, John Collin, Nina May, Carlos and Ada. Source: Past and Present of Knox County, Ohio - Vol. II - Publ. by B. F. Bowen & Company, Indianapolis, Indiana - 1912 - Page 450
	JOHN COOK LEVERING - See Frank O. Levering Source: Past and Present of Knox County, Ohio - Vol. II - Publ. by B. F. Bowen & Company, Indianapolis, Indiana - 1912 - Page 452
	NOAH LEVERING - See Frank O. Levering Source: Past and Present of Knox County, Ohio - Vol. II - Publ. by B. F. Bowen & Company, Indianapolis, Indiana - 1912 - Page 452
	WILLIAM LEWIS.     The gentleman whose name heads this sketch has long enjoyed prestige as a worthy, public-spirited citizen of the community in which he resides, a widely known carpenter and builder of Pleasant township, Knox county, and as an official against whose record no word of suspicion was ever uttered, his prominence in the community being the legitimate result of genuine merit and ability and in every relation, whether in the humble sphere of private citizenship or as a trusted public servant with large responsibilities resting upon him, his many excellencies of character and the able and impartial manner in which he discharges his every duty has won for him an enviable reputation as an enterprising and representative self-made man.      William Lewis was born in Bucks county, Pennsylvania, July 4, 1847.  He is the son of Uriah and Mary (Bignell) Lewis, who spent most of their lives in the county where the subject was born, moving to Montgomery county about 1850, never coming to Ohio.  In the veins of the subject flows the blood of a long line of sterling pioneer ancestors, his first progenitor having landed on American soil from Wales in 1717, settling in what was then Buck’s province.  The great-grandfather, Isaac Lewis, was a Revolutionary soldier, and John Lewis, brother of the subject, served in the Civil war as a member of Battery C, Pennsylvania Artillery.  The subject served nine months in the quartermaster’s department in front of Petersburg, Virginia, in 1864 and 1865.      William Lewis, of this sketch, was educated in the public schools of Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, and when a young man learned the carpenter's trade.  In 1869 he came to Ohio, first locating in Cleveland where he remained about a year, engaged in carpenter work.  Following this he visited various places, remaining for brief periods in each, finding employment at his trade as carpenter.  Part of this time was spent in Knox county, and in 1877 he permanently located here, first in Butler township.  He continued at carpentering and, being a skilled workman and a conscientious business man, his services were in good demand and many of the best buildings in the county stand today as monuments to his skill as a builder.      Mr. Lewis was married in February, 1871, to Lucinda Ely, daughter of John and Sarah Ann (Underwood) Ely, of Butler township, where the mother still resides, the father being deceased.  Two children, a son and a daughter, have been born to the subject and wife: W. Frank is married and is a physician in Utica, Licking county, Ohio; the daughter, Jennie B., married Fred Hunter, of Gambier, Ohio.      Mr. Lewis moved to Mt. Vernon in 1883 and there continued carpentering, but in 1885 moved to his farm three miles southeast of Mt. Vernon, in Pleasant township, and followed his trade until 1908, when he was elected a member of the board of county commissioners of Knox county.  He is a Democrat politically and has always been active in party affairs.  For a period of ten years he served as treasurer of Pleasant township and for three years was a member of the township school board.  Having made such a praiseworthy record as a county commissioner, he was re-elected for a second term in the fall of 1910 and the duties of this office he continues to discharge in a manner that reflects much credit upon himself and to the eminent satisfaction of all concerned.  He is a man of good character, and among all classes of people his reputation for capability and fair dealing is the very best. Source: Past and Present of Knox County, Ohio - Vol. II - Publ. by B. F. Bowen & Company, Indianapolis, Indiana - 1912 - Page 827
	EDWARD C. LIMBAUGH   Source: Past and Present of Knox County, Ohio - Vol. II - Publ. by B. F. Bowen & Company, Indianapolis, Indiana - 1912 - Page 886
	JOHN LITZENBERG   Source: Past and Present of Knox County, Ohio - Vol. II - Publ. by B. F. Bowen & Company, Indianapolis, Indiana - 1912 - Page 822
	JOHN E. LITZENBERG   Source: Past and Present of Knox County, Ohio - Vol. II - Publ. by B. F. Bowen & Company, Indianapolis, Indiana - 1912 - Page 822
	JOHN B. LLOYD   Source: Past and Present of Knox County, Ohio - Vol. II - Publ. by B. F. Bowen & Company, Indianapolis, Indiana - 1912 - Page 741
	CHARLES C. LOGSDON.   When the evening shadows of old age lie about us, it is quite the usual thing for a person to look back over his life to find out whether the world is any better for his having lived.  It must be a gloomy retrospect indeed when no good can be found upon such an examination.  On the other hand, what a delightful satisfaction it must be to any one to know that his life has been an example of excellence for the guidance of youth and for the congratulation of age.  How many old persons who read these lines can truthfully hold up their heads and declare that the world is better for their having lived.  It is a pleasure to chronicle the events in a career of a man who has the highest respect of all his acquaintances, such as Charles C. Logsdon, long a well-known business man of Danville, Union township, and one of the worthy pioneer sons of Knox county, which he has lived to see advance from the wilderness to one of the foremost communities in the great Buckeye commonwealth, and none has been happier in its phenomenal progress than he.      Mr. Logsdon was born in Union township, this county, on May 31, 1839.  He is the son of David and Rebecca (Uhl) Logsdon, both born in Maryland.  The Logsdons were Scotch and emigrated to America with Lord Baltimore and settled in Maryland and Kentucky.  The Uhls were of German blood and they, too, came to the United States in an early period.  The parents of the subject were married in Maryland and came to Knox county, Ohio, about 1825 when the country was sparsely settled and practically a vast forest.  They first settled in Danville and later moved to a farm in Union township and began to clear the land for farming.  They underwent the usual hardships and privations incident to pioneer life and in due course of time they became very comfortably fixed through their industry and frugal habits.  The elder Logsdon was a man of fine intelligence and upright character and he was influential in the affairs of his community.  He was born in 1809 and his death occurred in 1876.  His wife was born in 1808 and her death occurred in 1885.      Charles C. Logsdon was reared on the farm and when of proper age he assisted his father in the fields and he received such education as the early country schools afforded.  He remained under his parental roof-tree until he was twenty-one years of age, then worked at farming for his neighbors for some time.  He was slow in learning the English alphabet, but learned spelling phonetically and got to be the champion speller in school of all ages, although he did not know a letter in the alphabet.  Later he learned the millers' trade and operated the mill at Gambier for six years and then moved to a farm which he purchased, near Monroe Mills, in Monroe township, and there he remained fifteen years.  In 1883 he moved to Independence, Kansas, and engaged in the shorthorn cattle business and farmed extensively, prospering through close application and good management and becoming an extensive land owner and one of the substantial men of that locality.      Mr. Logsdon was first married in September, 1867, to Amelia Hayes, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Hayes, of Harrison township, Knox county, Ohio, and to this union two sons have been born, Carey L., now in the railway mail service, but recently admitted to the bar, and expects to follow the law, and Clemen J., of Osborn, Greene county, Ohio.  The wife and mother passed to her rest in July, 1887, while living in Kansas, and she was brought back to her old home in Union Grove, Knox county, Ohio, for interment.  In September, 1890, Mr. Logsdon was again married to Alice G. Critchfield, daughter of Hiram and Harriet Critchfield, of Knox county, an early pioneer family.  This union has been without issue.      After the death of his first wife, Mr. Logsdon returned to Buckeye City, Knox county, Ohio, and lived a retired life for several years, then moved to Columbus for the purpose of educating his sons in the Ohio State University, and that city was his home for a period of eight years, while his sons were attending school.  Then he returned to Buckeye City and engaged in the cement business, manufacturing cement building blocks, ornamental work and monuments and he met with a large measure of success in this field.  He has a hue modern residence of cement block, delightfully located, commanding a beautiful view of the surrounding country, in fact, his is the finest residence in Danville and Buckeye City.  Mr. Logsdon is now living a retired life, enjoying the fruits of his former years of endeavor.  He has been very successful in a business way and has large interests and a competency.      Politically Mr. Logsdon has always been a Democrat, but has never been active or held anything but township offices, such as trustee and assessor.  He belongs to the Knights of Columbus.  He and his family are members of the Catholic church and are devout people, standing high in all circles of the community. Source: Past and Present of Knox County, Ohio - Vol. II - Publ. by B. F. Bowen & Company, Indianapolis, Indiana - 1912 - Page 602
	JOHN LONEY   Source: Past and Present of Knox County, Ohio - Vol. II - Publ. by B. F. Bowen & Company, Indianapolis, Indiana - 1912 - Page 537
	JOHN C. LONEY   Source: Past and Present of Knox County, Ohio - Vol. II - Publ. by B. F. Bowen & Company, Indianapolis, Indiana - 1912 - Page 537
	WILLIAM C. LONEY   Source: Past and Present of Knox County, Ohio - Vol. II - Publ. by B. F. Bowen & Company, Indianapolis, Indiana - 1912 - Page 535
	MORTIMORE E. LYTLE   Source: Past and Present of Knox County, Ohio - Vol. II - Publ. by B. F. Bowen & Company, Indianapolis, Indiana - 1912 - Page 706